The Quest for Corvo - Couverture souple

Symons, A. J. A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0704301970 ISBN 13 : 9780704301979

Editeur : Quartet Books, 1993

Synopsis

The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography With a Memoir by Sir Shane Leslie

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

A.J.A. Symons (1900-1941) pursued a wide variety of projects in his short life, writing and editing works on the verse of the 1890s, the history of the Nonesuch Press, and critical studies of various figures of note. He is remembered for his groundbreaking biography of the bizarre genius Baron Corvo and for his own eccentric hobbies, as chronicled in a biography written by his brother, the mystery novelist Julian Symons.

A S Byatt is renowned internationally for her novels and short stories. Her novels include the Booker Prize-winning Possession, The Biographer’s Tale and the quartet,The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman. Her most recent novel, The Children’s Book was published in 2009.

Revue de presse

"Symons's biography of a little-known writer named Frederick Rolfe is unique in biographical literature in bringing the reader in on how the biographer knows what he knows about his subject; and in owning up to what he doesn't know or feels cannot be known. 'The Quest for Corvo' is biography in the form of a detective story, and as such it is riveting....The surest formula for a masterpiece biography—of which there are not that many—is an extraordinary human being writing about a great one. In 'The Quest for Corvo' we have an utterly charming man writing on a madly eccentric one....A slender book, an odd book, a completely original book, [it] also represents a new method of writing biography that has never been copied."  —Joseph Epstein, The Wall Street Journal

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Quartet Books
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0704301970
• ISBN 13: 9780704301979
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
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• Personne responsable: non disponible